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Nelson Eddy
Leaving the Screen?
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Money isn't important to Nelson Eddy. Singing great music is
IN LESS than one year, Nelson Eddy has risen from comparative obscurity to a pre-eminent position on the screen. A year ago, he was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forgotten man, shunted into unimportant roles ; today, he receives more fan mail than any other Metro star — and there is no sign of a letdown.
Were he the average actor, that phenomenal one-picture rise to fame and stardom would, in itself, be completely satisfying success. Few actors, even in this hectic maelstrom of overnight triumphs, have ever leaped to so lofty a pinnacle in so brief a span of time. Few have ever been in a more strategic position to demand — and command — -all of the financial rewards that the screen is willing to lavish on popularity.
To Nelson, however, that success, in itself alone, would be failure, a disappointing compromise with a greater ambition. He came to pictures regarding them as the means to a desired end. In his estimation — the thousands of fan letters notwithstanding — they remain exactly that. And the "end" is not in Hollywood — at least, not now.
Years ago he conceived an ambition and set for himself a certain artistic goal. He charted his course, step by step, with that goal in view and neither the many setbacks that he met prior to his triumph in Naughty Marietta, nor his great popularity since his appearance in that picture, have altered in the least his vision of that desired destination. He set out to be a great singer and, moreover, to be a singer of great music. Financial considerations were secondary then and they still are secondary today.
• When he first signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he
was already winning a distinguished position on the
concert stage. The studio executives wanted control of all
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The movies' most sensational singins star has turned down a fabulous film offer and has gone on a concert tour. What does it mean? He tells you!
By ERIC L. ERGENBRIGHT
In "Rose Marie,' Nelson Eddy and Jeanefte MacDonald sing "The Indian Love Call" in an unusua setting — a canoe